[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour of LSDateFormat())?

2008-01-06 Thread Barry Beattie
D'oh! "depicted" = deprecated (bloody spell checkers) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,

[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour of LSDateFormat())?

2008-01-06 Thread Barry Beattie
fast as possible - or better still give him a date picker so he can't stuff it up). what I'm getting at is that the only thing that changes is how the user wants to interact with the data, not the data itself. It's still a date under the hood. eh. my 2c. > Time for a swim an

[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour ofLSDateFormat())?

2008-01-08 Thread Barry Beattie
IMHO there are three "beasts" - undocumented functionality (and therefore unsupported) - official features - deprecated functionality. Just as "undocumented functionality" may evolve into "official features", I see nothing wrong with moving stuff to be deprecated. Not the same as dropping it

[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour ofLSDateFormat())?

2008-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
> Nobody was talking about i18n in a round-a-bout way, I was (as the person who initiated the thread). The point that I was trying to make is that there were existing functions that help bring i18n to an app (and just as importantly as Haikal pointed out, localisation) > As far as the 2 functio

[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour ofLSDateFormat())?

2008-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
if you're referring to Owen's comments, I think that was a reaction to differing standards that seem to be supported in the writing of CF applications (not core language). standards, don't ya just love 'em? there's so many to choose from** I still find it surprising that non LS functions are sti

[cfaussie] blogging for "fun and profit" (BlogCFC Vs Wordpress)

2008-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
OK, the boss is finally seeing the light on how important public blogs can be to business presence. I've been looking at BlogCFC as not only for blogging software, but specifically because it's written in ColdFusion (the standard platform around here, but not for the parent company). I've now hi

[cfaussie] Re: blogging for "fun and profit" (BlogCFC Vs Wordpress)

2008-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
or WordPress, and if you want to do something that you can't do > with WordPress, import the RSS from WordPress into your CF blog... Thats > what I would do ;-) > > PS. I'm using both blogger and WordPress, but prefer WordPress more and > more. > > > On 1/14/08, Bar

[cfaussie] Re: blogging for "fun and profit" (BlogCFC Vs Wordpress)

2008-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
in theory, the same SEO techniques can be applied to any website. Also, the same "helpers" (code/tools/plug-ins) can be written for any blogging platform. in theory. In practice, Wordpress (it seems) has a suite of plugins for SEO, the Google sitemaps generator, easily adding posts to social boo

[cfaussie] Re: Conference program

2008-01-14 Thread Barry Beattie
> I had a look at the WebDU Agenda at a glance, but that is more structured > than ours will be. Every events starts and finishes at the same time. forgive me for not giving you the answer you want but ... IMHO, that sort of interface screams out for an RIA solution - I'm thinking Flex spec

[cfaussie] Re: blogging for "fun and profit" (BlogCFC Vs Wordpress)

2008-01-15 Thread Barry Beattie
gt; built in. Has for a while. :) > > On Jan 13, 2008 7:31 PM, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > many thanx Taco. > > > > this is exactly what I'm hearing from Marketing. > > > > but how does this happen and how ca

[cfaussie] Re: using an ezxcel file as a datasource under cf8

2008-01-15 Thread Barry Beattie
I'll jump in here, since Charlie works out of Atlanta, Georgia in the U.S and is probably snoring by now. he's referring to a previous post on of his on CFAussie with a similar topic. the resource lists are the ones on his website. http://carehart.org/resourcelists/ have a good poke around the

[cfaussie] Re: Web Developer sought by Flinders University

2008-01-16 Thread Barry Beattie
Flinders is a quality and well respected institution ... but please say it's not going through exactly the same sad scenario that I've seen at Newcastle Uni a while back**...? ... while on their own, the educators are passionate, the IT and system staff smart hard workers ... ... and yet combin

[cfaussie] Re: VIC UG Meeting?

2008-01-16 Thread Barry Beattie
going through withdrawal symptoms, Dale? need your monthly fix of User Group goodness? I've been fielding a few calls like that too. IMHO, it gives a bit of a spring to a UG managers' step... people care! On Jan 17, 2008 6:14 AM, Mark Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nope.. there will b

[cfaussie] Re: Flex and AIR User Group Pre-release Tour - Melbourne, 29th January

2008-01-16 Thread Barry Beattie
Andrew, Danny Dura is "performing" the following night in Brisbane, so you could "tour" with him - we'll make you feel welcome. > I am finally going to be able to attend a CFUG for Vic :-) and it's actually a joint CFUG/Flex thing. Oh the irony... On Jan 17, 2008 9:35 AM, Andrew Scott <[EMA

[cfaussie] Brisbane: Wed Jan 30th: Flex Pre-Launch Event with Danny Dura (U.S) in person

2008-01-17 Thread Barry Beattie
Flex3 is getting closer! Lots closer! To celebrate, Adobe are sending out their experts to all corners of the globe, and we're lucky enough to secure Danny Dura (one of the Flex/AIR team) for Brisbane on Jan 30th to our regular User Group venue at Qantm College (details below). Not to be out-do

[cfaussie] REMIND: Brisbane: Wed Jan 30th: Flex Pre-Launch Event with Danny Dura

2008-01-24 Thread Barry Beattie
well the early news back from Danny Dura's presentation on Thursday night in Sydney was that it was a great night - very interesting with over 90% of those that RSVP'd ensuring they didn't miss out - standing room only, it seems. I've also heard on the grape vine that Melbourne had to find a bigg

[cfaussie] LAST CHANCE: Brisbane: Wed Jan 30th: Flex Pre-Launch Event with Danny Dura

2008-01-28 Thread Barry Beattie
just in case you had a HUGE Australia Day long weekend ... ... and it might have slipped your attention that it's tomorrow night (wednesday) also, RSVP's for the prize draws closes at 9:00am in the morning. If you haven't RSVP'd yet, it's strongly recommended that you do so. http://qld.cfug.org

[cfaussie] Re: onError - I'm confused...!!

2008-01-28 Thread Barry Beattie
I seem to remember somewhere that onError will not catch errors within it. which means you have to be careful that you don't generated errrors in onError() I could be wrong tho... On Jan 29, 2008 5:03 PM, Taco Fleur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it is. > > > On 1/29/08, Chris Velevitch <[E

[cfaussie] Re: Dev tools that don't require pesky licenses?

2008-01-28 Thread Barry Beattie
yes, to second Brett, the Eclipse platform (fancy name for the coding tool) the Europa version, with the CFEclipse plug-in for CF work. when's your next user group meeting? link up with one of the ppl there to walk you through it. Mostly easy to get going but having a friend to give a hand in pe

[cfaussie] Re: Scotch anyone?

2008-02-03 Thread Barry Beattie
yeah, and not winning the prizes. we've heard the sob stories. Imagine! people using the lure of prizes to encourage them to a CFUG meeting ... what is the world coming to? On Feb 4, 2008 2:50 PM, Toby Tremayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in your CFUG, eating your pizza. > > > > On 04/0

Re: [cfaussie] Migrate CF from CF 5 to CF9

2010-09-12 Thread Barry Beattie
> I am wondering if the safest option for the smoothest migration be to > migrate the server from cf5 to cf6 then to cf7 and then migrate from cf7 to > cf9 yes, but if it was a critical application, spending time on comming up with a comprehensive test plan and re-running it at each stage might be

Re: [cfaussie] Reducing CF's Footprint.

2010-10-12 Thread Barry Beattie
"He has started playing with reducing CF's base memory usage by removing unneeded jar files from CF/lib/ " I hope you're all developing against a similarly crippled CF instance, lest you roll out a feature working in your dev/test environment but not on your customers installs. I thought you guys

Re: [cfaussie] OT: a couple of questions for my travel there in coming weeks

2010-11-06 Thread Barry Beattie
"but the real thing about Tasmania is the wilderness." +1 if you can get to Straughn on the west coast, take one of the eco-tourism boat trips up the Gordon and Franklin rivers and see a most amazing cool temperate rainforest - the reason why myself and hundreds more fought against a dam from bei

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective

2010-11-14 Thread Barry Beattie
not only casual, but people take pride in dragging out their oldest product T-shirt (eg: Allaire CF) and wearing it with pride. I think Darren Tracey (Suncorp, CF.O organising committee member) has an excellent collection of such T-shirts. It'll be interesting to see what he drags out from mothbal

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective

2010-11-14 Thread Barry Beattie
@Kym "Hmm, is it a rule that you to wear it?" you thinking of putting it in a picture frame like collectable football jurseys? ooh... some competition in who's got the rarest/most unique CF Tee... On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Mark Drew wrote: > Dammit! > > Now I am going to have to bri

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective

2010-11-15 Thread Barry Beattie
Melbourne, right? reminds me of a Crowded House song... "Four seasons in one day..." On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Joey Daly wrote: > Don't do what I did... checked the weather, was nice hot day. Wore shirt, > shorts and thongs... and turned into an ice cube from the air conditioner :(

Re: [cfaussie] Session Variables with multiple sessions

2010-12-01 Thread Barry Beattie
I personally would never use session variables to hold transitory record data (ie: what the user is working on). For me the session variables is all about the user at that login, nothing about what they are trying to do. if I wanted multiple browser instances (or multiple tabs) to deal with each r

Re: [cfaussie] Session Variables with multiple sessions

2010-12-02 Thread Barry Beattie
"What if the data changes in one session, and you are looking at false data in another session?" exactly. I worked on such a system a couple of years ago. It was programmed by a java client/server programmer who obviously had no idea how the web worked. Opened up a new browser, work on customer #2

Re: [cfaussie] Re: cfspreadsheet and vfs

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Beattie
I wouldn't think it'd matter too much: "Severity: 5 - Medium (Easy workaround, wait until next release)" (cute: waiting until next release is an "Easy workaround" - not a criticism, just humorous) On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > This is in relation to CF10 it seems and

Re: [cfaussie] OOP question.

2010-12-14 Thread Barry Beattie
IMHO Hospital is too big. the way I see it, it's admissions that Admissions.admit(patient) and Admissions.dischard(patient) my 2c only. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Mandel wrote: > Well how does a hopsital manage this? > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Gavin Beau Baumanis > w

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Daily Rate

2011-03-17 Thread Barry Beattie
> I think i remember seeing that job being advertised, and skipping > straight over it because of the location. I had a closer look (just about every time it appeared) because it was right up my alley with TAFE/training/education, but came to the same conclusion. I wasn't the only bread-winner in

[cfaussie] upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-24 Thread Barry Beattie
Upgrading software versions: what's best practice? This isn't specifically about CF (although I'm curious how Adobe handles multiple version upgrades: do they have a CF11 and CF12 development environment running now in addition to CF10?) I've come across a situation where people want to include f

Re: [cfaussie] upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-27 Thread Barry Beattie
egroups.com >> Subject: RE: [cfaussie] upgrade strategies (enterprise software) >> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:48:23 +1100 >> >> Virtual machines >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Barry Beattie [mailto:barry.beat...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday,

Re: [cfaussie] Re: POI and ColdFusion

2011-03-27 Thread Barry Beattie
> Oh, and for those playing at home... I'm running CFMX7... so i can't > use cfspreadsheet... :/ so, in effect what you're saying is that the expense in upgrading two versions might be able to be offset by increased developer productivity? just a quick 2c. -- You received this message because y

Re: [cfaussie] Re: upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-28 Thread Barry Beattie
thanks Gav > I'd do something along the lines of; > Create a new branch in your repository (SVN / Git / etc) of choice and > use that branch as the ApplicationRoot for the application that the > BAs/Testers use. > That way, any changes you end up making can now be tracked and "more > easily" merge

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Pop up text

2011-05-15 Thread Barry Beattie
@Andrew > This uses YUI 2 (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/).  Given my time again > I'd probably not use YUI, Just as an FYI / heads-up / IMHO, can I ask why? (no affiliation, just curious) thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. T

Re: [cfaussie] MAD. Who wants pizza?

2011-05-19 Thread Barry Beattie
Pizza makes you fat, Dale. Bread, carbs, fats, oils, meats, cheese. Heart-attack candidates. How about a nice hot bowl of Lentil Soup? Grilled Tofu on CousCous? Crispy Celery salad anyone? On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Dale Fraser wrote: > Well if there is no Pizza then im not coming, I e

Re: [cfaussie] import dynamic location

2011-07-17 Thread Barry Beattie
IIRC, because the IMPORT target is calculated at compile time, not runtime. yes? (lets see if I've still got brain cells left). On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Paul Kukiel wrote: > No you must specify a real location for this and not a variable. > > Paul. > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, St

Re: [cfaussie] Converting boolean YES to true

2011-08-04 Thread Barry Beattie
"Also can anyone one recommend a way to do this now? I tried JavaCast(“Boolean”, foo) but that didn’t work." have you seen this? http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2010/2/5/Booleans.and.Coldfusion Also, have you confirmed you have a true boolean? What I'm getting at is the difference betwee

Re: [cfaussie] Converting boolean YES to true

2011-08-04 Thread Barry Beattie
so, what's !YES ... is it NO? is anything that can be construed as a YES (True, 1, etc) considered a YES and therefore the opposite is NO? On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chong wrote: > TBH you would have to fix it yourself, I can't see Adobe fixing it soon as > it is likely a legacy issue,

Re: [cfaussie] How to load balance

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Beattie
> Just as a side note: What you're asking for "a solution to the following" or > "does anyone have instructions on how to setup load balancing" is rather a > consulting gig than a question on a mailing list imho. As you can see from > just the few pointers I've provided you, it's a vast topic with

Re: [cfaussie] How to load balance

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Beattie
LOL! you're assimilating, Kai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand Kiwi ingenuity: This is the idea that New Zealanders display a MacGyver-like ability to solve any problem, often using unconventional means or whatever happens to be lying around. This is also described as the Numb

Re: [cfaussie] Helms and Peters are back at it again...

2011-08-10 Thread Barry Beattie
there's a lot of good stuff that these guys touch on using motorbikes, cooking, woodworking as vehicles to make the point. Ideas that are worthwhile in application development, analyst skills, project management, etc. Defiantly worth the half an hour or so to listen to. If ppl haven't heard the

Re: [cfaussie] A really useful video of CF9 performance

2011-08-22 Thread Barry Beattie
what's with the music in the background? Sounds like an old trad Irish tune ("she moved through the fair") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skb9cn6q0lw Megadeath it ain't... On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mark Ireland wrote: > > A really useful video of CF9 performance > > http://www.youtube.

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Amazon EC2 hosting services viability

2011-09-07 Thread Barry Beattie
Steve: what's the Data Center's/your's disaster recovery plan?** How critical is it for you to deliver, say, 99.5% (or whatever in your SLA) uptime to your customers? no criticism, not having a go, just curious if these are factors to consider (what you've got Vs what EC2 can do for you). me: n

[cfaussie] CF Report Builder tool: any success stories?

2012-01-03 Thread Barry Beattie
users to generate reports (and save CFR files to re-run at a later date)? thanks Barry Beattie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [cfaussie] CF Report Builder tool: any success stories?

2012-01-03 Thread Barry Beattie
t; http://learncf.com > > http://flexcf.com > > ** ** > > *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Barry Beattie > *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 January 2012 1:41 PM > *To:* cfaussie > *Subject:* [cfaussie] CF Report Bui

Re: [cfaussie] Re: bizarre CF9 sql server error

2012-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
a missed comma (or space/carriage return) when moved to CF? For it to complain before the FROM clause is IMHO the clue. divide and conquer until it's found perhaps? On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Stephen M wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 7:17 pm, "Steve Onnis" wrote: > > Can you show us some of the

Re: [cfaussie] [ANN SYD] Tonight: Open Source CMSs powered by cfml

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Beattie
so, Kym, how did it go? For us not in Sydney, you've whet our appetites. What were the CMS's and what's the conclusion? On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Mark Mandel wrote: > Sounds like a great session for CFMeetup! :) > > Mark > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Brett Payne-Rhodes wrote: >

Re: [cfaussie] Sean Corfield will be in Sydney and Melborne in August

2012-03-31 Thread Barry Beattie
Tamworth? What the hell is in Tamworth? It's not the Country Music Festival then is it? On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:24 PM, AJ Mercer wrote: > And be 'get him to' you mean ask nicely right :-P > On Mar 31, 2012 3:09 PM, "Dale Fraser" wrote: > > -- > You received this message because you are sub

Re: [cfaussie] textareas the returns

2012-04-22 Thread Barry Beattie
Steve: is there any situations where wouldn't work/be a good idea? That used to be my preference. On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Brian Knott wrote: > Had a look at Paragraph forma but it replace single returns with spaces > and double returns with . Not sure why it replaces with spaces, but

Re: [cfaussie] UK Recruiters

2012-05-10 Thread Barry Beattie
@Matt: " or looking at coming here?" what's the options? work permits, etc. thanks Barry B On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:56 PM, M@ Bourke wrote: > Hi Brett, > > I've been here 6 years, are you in the UK or looking at coming here? > if you're here then I strongly suggest going to the following

[cfaussie] OT: source control question

2012-05-22 Thread Barry Beattie
nothing to do with CF, everything to do with correct source code control procedures. say a bunch of work has progressively got to the stage where the last of it to pass testing was v0.2. After that, a bit more functionality was added - twice - to make the versioning v0.2.01 and v0.2.02 and checke

Re: [cfaussie] OT: source control question

2012-05-22 Thread Barry Beattie
> Entirely depends on your system. Rats. I'm looking at this from a theoretical POV which should provide some guidance for any system Suffice to say a product has been developed. A bit of late additional work was done but it was considered it wasn't a good idea and the additions scrapped. The id

Re: [cfaussie] OT : iPad website viewing

2012-05-24 Thread Barry Beattie
so what happens when you want to turn the ipad sideways: the page doesn't reflow? Are you sure you want to do this? On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > Does anyone know if you can force a website to always be viewed in landscape > on an ipad? Any meta tags or anything that can

Re: [cfaussie] Coldfusion Web services

2012-06-19 Thread Barry Beattie
> I ended up having to rename the property to something else.  This issue > occurs on CF8 and CF9 And yet it hasn't already been reported as a bug/known issue? Curious -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: [cfaussie] What the ColdFusion community needs more of...

2012-11-25 Thread Barry Beattie
t; then supporting cf.Objective(ANZ) comes to mind. Or WebDU for that matter. Or, dare I say it ... the local CF user group? I'll shut up now and crawl back into my hole. Barry Beattie On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Dawesi wrote: > Passion, enthuisasm > > events like this:

Re: [cfaussie] What the ColdFusion community needs more of...

2012-11-26 Thread Barry Beattie
> On another note who in the world can take 10 weeks off full time to do such a > course. the unemployed, students, etc. I was four months unemployed last year. I was three months unemployed (thanks, Can-Do Campbell!) until recently. It happens. > If Adobe were to sponsor / subsidise this it woul

Re: [cfaussie] cfmap Bing / Google Maps

2014-05-15 Thread Barry Beattie
great question: I'm seeing more and more Bing maps being incorporated into services (eg: Facebook events). As a member of the public, I'm biased towards Google Maps but I'm conscious of the trend. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:42 AM, wrote: > Hi > > > > Just wondering if CFmap works with Bing Maps

Re: [cfaussie] Creating A String With ## values in coldfusion

2015-03-01 Thread Barry Beattie
personally, I'd much prefer setting the # as a variable from the chr(x) function over replacing one string with another. Easily missed and there are ~ popping up unexpectedly... my 2c (from memory, YMMV) /** # as delim **/ On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Blair McKenzie wrote: > Another

Re: [cfaussie] Creating A String With ## values in coldfusion

2015-03-01 Thread Barry Beattie
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[cfaussie] Re: project management

2006-01-29 Thread Barry Beattie
>> PM is like a crystal ball these days ;) ah ha! So that's why we never saw one timeline or GANTT chart or even a spec, eh Barnesy? We had to be flippin' mind readers to work out what was needed. Critical path...what's that? Bloody luxury, I reckon.In my day.(trailes off into the three

[cfaussie] Re: Several folders with Application.cfc in each

2006-01-29 Thread Barry Beattie
gee, Mark, that seems a bit messy on a couple of points: - the cascading nature of adding Application.cfm's would be harder. you're looking at the top level but it may not be. how about this /myApp /mySubApp /myAppsFinalRestingPlace where each adds something depending on level (eg

[cfaussie] Re: Can you generate Word documents with CF without using COM?

2006-02-07 Thread Barry Beattie
Time for GarethE to espouse the brill iText library, methinks (hint, hint GarethI know you're reading this) Really dirty method (and limited): you can "poke text holes" in an RTF document - open MSWord and add text - save as RTF - open the RTF doc in notepad, searching for the text you ent

[cfaussie] Re: perplexing SQL Server database permissions problem

2006-02-19 Thread Barry Beattie
Kay, fogive the vagueness of this reply but I can't remember the exact search words in google to find *exactly* it. I've read about this but haven't experianced this issue myself... I think it comes down to what Paul was hinting at "While this will create the necessary login IDs, what it will n

[cfaussie] Re: CFC extends attribute

2006-02-20 Thread Barry Beattie
>> We use CFC's heavily in our application. Because they rock good to see, Jer..more power to you can I throw in a quick thought? if you're wanting to make "extends" dynamic, would you consider a "mix-in" approach where you're "decorating" the CFC with functionality of another, as opposed to st

[cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ?

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
it's all really tricky: if you put sydney and melbourne ppl on the same table, it'll start a punch up. if you seperate them to two tables you'll start an "animal house" style food fight. damned if you do and On 22/02/06, M@ Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll be doing the banquet as

[cfaussie] Re: National Adobe UG Meeting

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
Robin, you really have missed your calling as the "writer of copy" and "protagonist of prose" get ye self to the Fairfax publishers and see if there's a sunday suppliment just waiting for your by-line... we're expecting a post-webDU report to rival "The Man From Snowy River": There was movement

[cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ?

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
>> but a little company over here called Lockheed Martin BASTARD! couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. >> Since he's such a good mate of mine, I'd be very grateful if you can show him and his wife some aussie hospitality and make sure they enjoy themselves. sounds like a chalenge to m

[cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ?

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
ED]> wrote: > > Who here is gonna chip in to get spike over here? > > -Original Message- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Spike > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:46 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaus

[cfaussie] Re: Postcode search

2006-02-22 Thread Barry Beattie
David, forgive me for being curious but what's the privacy implications involved? I realise it's not you but AP but still... the QAS tool allows us to check (at the time someone tries to submit an online form) that they are putting in a genuine address. If it is not a 'real' address as far as

[cfaussie] Re: UUID as a product key

2006-02-23 Thread Barry Beattie
can I add a quick 2 cents? >> I make a web-service call back the to the CF Server to validate the UUID is a paid customer in the DB. sometimes the computer that the exe is installed on has no (and may *never* have) internet connection. sure it can be downloaded onto *some* machine that has inte

[cfaussie] Re: cfdocument fonts

2006-02-27 Thread Barry Beattie
Pat do you mean: for windows: start button-> settings->control panel->fonts maps to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts ? barry.b On 2/28/06, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > into what control pannel? > i have tried adding it into the cf admin but it wont accept it. The font is > a PFM font > > Steve

[cfaussie] Re: Next QLD CFUG meeting Tomorrow, Tuesday 7th March in the Brisbane CBD

2006-03-05 Thread Barry Beattie
>> "be nice to have one this year" well, to rip off John F. Kennedy: "ask not what your CFUG can do for you, ask what you can do for your CFUG" (Dale, not directed personally at you, OK?) On 3/6/06, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any updates on the VIC one, be nice to have one t

[cfaussie] waaaay OT: WebDU gift: the Logitech camera

2006-03-06 Thread Barry Beattie
=== disclaimer === please forgive this noize but with the hundreds of the Logitech notebook cameras that Geoff and Adobe handed out at WebDU and lots of those ppl on this list, someone must have tried this already (and possibly get it working) - on a Mac. I'm sure it's just me

[cfaussie] Re: waaaay OT: WebDU gift: the Logitech camera

2006-03-06 Thread Barry Beattie
>> Anyone got their copy of Visual Studio or SQL Server working on OS X? ah but that's differentthe webcam - I can *use* that! but...butI looked at it's CD...!!! it said "QuickCam (Mac OS)" and I was hopeful...!!! and then Steve pointed out the small print? "for Notenooks Pro" A

[cfaussie] Re: waaaay OT: WebDU gift: the Logitech camera

2006-03-07 Thread Barry Beattie
while attending a geek fest... > > On 3/7/06, Ben Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/7/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > and then Steve pointed out the small print? > > > "for Notenooks Pro" > > > >

[cfaussie] Re: waaaay OT: WebDU gift: the Logitech camera

2006-03-07 Thread Barry Beattie
news/security/soa/Mac_OS_X_hacked_under_30_minutes/0 > ,261744,39241748,00.htm > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > > -Original Message- > > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Barry Beattie > > Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:15

[cfaussie] Re: waaaay OT: WebDU gift: the Logitech camera

2006-03-07 Thread Barry Beattie
> Oh dear, don't open this can of worms. agreed. there's enough evidence to convince anything to anybody. lets kill the thread/cut the noize here, yes? it seems that no one else has been able (so far) to get the logictech camera working on a Mac. bummer. If that changes...(etc, etc) meanwhile t

[cfaussie] Re: waaaay OT: WebDU gift: the Logitech camera

2006-03-08 Thread Barry Beattie
oh dear. what have I unleashed? I will be cursed for a thousand years and have "he who must not be named" seek terrible vengance upon me. All I did was ask about a piddly little freebie webcam and the thread's gone on to bash operating systems**, cast a critical eye on Barnes' bird pulling power

[cfaussie] Re: Cleaning up spaghetti

2006-03-08 Thread Barry Beattie
turn the cfincludes/cfmodules into functions wrapped with CFC's? and use the names of the cfincludes/cfmodules as the function names? just a thought IMHO, the biggest benefit is to have a defined API that can be tested against: arguments come in, return values come out. it's the "iffy" things li

[cfaussie] Re: Cleaning up spaghetti

2006-03-08 Thread Barry Beattie
1) the names' been taken. Geldof will have a piece of you 2) support? how? I suggest alcohol 3) you're going to limit this to CF code, aren't you On 3/9/06, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about next year instead of webDU we have a BandAid conference where we > can raise m

[cfaussie] Re: Flash Vulnerability Announcement

2006-03-16 Thread Barry Beattie
yeah, Jer, you're right...in 4.3 billion yearsor so. On 3/17/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahhhthe world is ending!! > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" grou

[cfaussie] Re: Commonwealth Games warps the space time continuum

2006-03-19 Thread Barry Beattie
which just goes to show what a joke this daylight savings business is - not locked in stone (code) but at the whim of flakey polititions and royality (she's not *my* Queen...they've all been dodgy since 1066) All it does is make Sydney-siders think they live in the only time-zone in Australia whe

[cfaussie] Re: [OT] Re: Commonwealth Games warps the space time continuum

2006-03-19 Thread Barry Beattie
don't worry, "Uncle" Pete's onto it. The best form of defence is attack and the plans to annex northern NSW is well under way - all the way down to Byron Bay (NewSouthWelshers don't know how to use sunshine so we'll "relieve" them of it - that's what the Currumbin bypass is all about: roll the ta

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta 2 and the Adobe Flex Developer Derby

2006-03-21 Thread Barry Beattie
"EXCLUDING QUEBEC" gee, and I thought it was only the English that were such Frank-a-phobes On 3/21/06, Brett Payne-Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After reading "OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES" I figured > that posting this to cfaussie was a bit of a waste of time...

[cfaussie] Help me save CF!

2006-03-22 Thread Barry Beattie
this is mostly second hand info (until the boss gets back) but it seems some Dilbert-type (up high) manager is having a swipe at CF because of the need to "have it work with Java" WTF? they obviously haven't any tech knowledge worth cred so I'm asking for help to combat ignorance: can any one p

[cfaussie] Re: Help me save CF!

2006-03-22 Thread Barry Beattie
lighter pen cheers barry.b On 3/23/06, Dale Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=A61BB14A-3048-80A9-EF80 > 3C49346D6BE1 > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > > -Original Message- > > From: cfaussie@goo

[cfaussie] Re: query of query error CF7

2006-03-29 Thread Barry Beattie
and if you take out the wrote: > > simple stuff. > > here's a dump of it (until i fix the problem!) > http://202.125.174.217/go/hsc/std-packs/ > > I put the "xx"s in the first row because if i don't i get a different > error: "15090G" is not numeric (row 88 of query) > > Gav > > On 3/30/06, Mark

[cfaussie] Re: query of query error CF7

2006-03-29 Thread Barry Beattie
sorry, bit too obtuce... SELECT * FROM qSpList WHERE course_type = #filterCourseType# ORDER BY course_name On 3/30/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and if you take out the > > > On 3/30/06, Gavin Cooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

[cfaussie] Re: query of query error CF7

2006-03-29 Thread Barry Beattie
I wonder? SELECT * FROM qSpList WHERE course_type = and course_type is not null ORDER BY course_name there *was* a change to QofQ (and to do with nulls) but for the life of me I can't remember exactly what On 3/30/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL P

[cfaussie] Re: Next QLD CFUG meeting Tomorrow, Tuesday 4th April in the Brisbane CBD

2006-04-02 Thread Barry Beattie
>> If you haven't already, then please RSVP by noon Wednesday, 4th of April, you mean tuesday, yes? if so I'll be there b On 4/3/06, Darren Tracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Details: > > When : 6:30 pm, Tuesday, 4th of April 2006 Where : ABN AMRO Morgans > Limited Level 29, > 123

[cfaussie] Re: what's the 'proper way' to remove comma formatting from numbers

2006-04-06 Thread Barry Beattie
LSParseCurrency (yes, you don't have currency but it would work here too) gets rid of pound signs, euro, $, commas, etc and turns the number into a decimal to four places. ..IIRC HTH barry.b On 4/7/06, Adam Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kay, > > I like a regular expression for

[cfaussie] Re: query function to delete a row from a query

2006-04-09 Thread Barry Beattie
is there anything wrong with doing a query to leave behind what you don't want? select * from origQofQ where not #condition#" On 4/6/06, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just my opinion, but that UDF is yuk. Imagine looping over a large query > > -Original Message- > Fro

[cfaussie] Re: query function to delete a row from a query

2006-04-09 Thread Barry Beattie
IL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that is what I went with before the deleteRow functions came in > > > On 4/10/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > is there anything wrong with doing a query to leave behind what you don't &g

[cfaussie] Re: tvguide.com.au

2006-04-10 Thread Barry Beattie
Gee, Scott, this was *ages* ago. C'mon, keep up. Oh, that's right. You're a public servant now. that explains it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email t

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta on the Mac?

2006-04-11 Thread Barry Beattie
aye, Chris, that *should* work what about CF connectivity and Flex Data Services? the only way a bunch of us here will be able to get anything out of this Beta is to work on it at home - on Macs. we've some way but the really important bits (CF conn, Flex data) any idea? On 4/12/06, Chr

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta on the Mac?

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Beattie
> CF does work on the Mac aye, and a great thing too > so all you need to do is get the connectivity files and install them > (somehow). connectivity: we're thinking that it's just some Jar's, AS files and a CF setting or two in an xml file (hoping anyway) no shortage of windows boxes at work

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta on the Mac?

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Beattie
for any Mac users out there reading this, the bottom line is that ChrisV is right: the *should* is correct. and Simeon Bateman (http://simb.net/blog/index.cfm) has the scars to prove it. FYI b On 4/12/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CF does work on the Mac &g

[cfaussie] comparing two queries - which records are different

2006-04-19 Thread Barry Beattie
hi all I have 2 multi-tabled queries that I need to compare. the origional is horribly written and returns 1242 results. the "new improved" query returns 1245 results. I want to see what the 3 "different" results are. any suggestions? SQLServer2000 thanx barry.b --~--~-~--~~

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